Niels O. Schiller

The activation and selection of Chinese verbal classifiers: an ERP study

ABSTRACT This study investigated the activation and selection of Chinese verbal classifiers during speech production to evaluate how lexico-syntactic features are retrieved, and how these processes are modulated by specific production demands. In two picture-word interference experiments (bare verb naming and verbal cl...

The activation of lexico-syntactic features in semi-lexical nouns

Classifier congruency effects in Spanish–Chinese noun phrase production: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Mandarin Chinese employs a classifier system requiring classifiers obligatorily positioned between demonstratives or numerals and nouns in noun phrases (NPs; e.g., 一张桌子 , [one specific-classifier-zhang1 table] , ‘one table’). While classifier congruency effects have been documented in monolingual Chinese sp...